Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up

“Take your seat.” “Sit like royalty in your leadership seat,” I say. “Sit as if you’ve the right to be there.”

“What would Obama do?” we took to asking each other in moments when his heart flagged. How do you handle yourself on the way out, regardless of whether you were given the respect you deserved?

we are basically, unalterably good. We are born that way. (And,

The magic, the alchemy, occurs when what we do mixes with who we are and is cooked by the heat of what we believe.

Listening, I’ve come to understand, is bearing witness to lives unfolding, to lives being discovered. Deep listening, listening compassionately, means guiding, gently nudging, or sometimes shoving people down the path of radical self-inquiry so they can make their way to their own truest selves. Then, and only then, can they lead with the dignity a

Journaling Invitations How did my relationship to money first get formed? How did that relationship shape the work I’ve chosen and my definitions of success and failure? How does it shape my view of the quality of others’ work and contributions? What was the belief system around money and work that I grew up with? How does that impact my view of my

“There’s no book,” I say, often nearly preaching. “There’s no ‘way,’ no ‘path,’ that’s been kept hidden from you.”

Between the thing that triggers us and our unconsciously chosen action is a tiny bit of space.

Buddhists teach that for the steadfast warrior to emerge, we’ve got to break open our hearts to what is.